Archive for June, 2006

Stolen VA laptop found..

Friday, June 30th, 2006

and data looks to be still safe. I for one am glad. I already got a letter from the VA saying someone might have my personal info, so this is good news for me and millions of others. Now I only hope they stop letting people take ...

More WGA news

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Looks like someone is trying to get a class-action lawsuit going against Microsoft for WGA. The suit alleges it violates spyware laws. That's most likely because it contacts Microsoft daily. It will be interesting to see how this one turns out!

New Microsoft WGA

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Looks like Microsoft put out another version of WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage). What the Advantage is, I don't know. However, there is rumors that it might start disabling copies of Windows that it deems pirated. Unfortunately, that's only going to affect people that are unlucky and get misidentified. Let's be ...

Wish I had enough money…

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

to give away ~37 BILLION DOLLARS!! Seriously, it's really great what Warren Buffett is doing and I'm glad to see it being done. Most of it is going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which already had to spend about $1 million/day to remain a non-profit. By ...

Bittorrent signs deal with Warner Bros.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

To be honest, I'm suprised it took this long but Bittorrent, INC signed a deal with Warner Bros to deliver legal movie and television content.? I just hope there is sort of a discount or kickback since they'd be using our bandwidth to deliver their products! Either way, it's nice ...

How to copy music from your iPod to your PC

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Found this article and it may be helpful to you if you've experienced a hard drive crash and don't have all your music backed up. I'd suggest not having iTunes installed just to prevent the music from being deleted before you copy it back to the PC. This method isn't ...

Big Brother 7 - All Stars

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

I don't know how many other people are reality show suckers, but one of my favorites is Big Brother. It's starting again in July and right now through June 28 you can vote for your favorites. "America" will decide the first 6 and the producers will decide the last 6. However, ...

Microsoft WLAN running on Linux hardware

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

I bet this is some news they didn't want to publicize! What the press statement didn't mention is that Aruba mobility controllers run the Linux operating system which Microsoft has aggressively targeted as being inferior to Windows as part of its "Get the Facts" marketing campaign. Check out the article for the ...

Ever been put on hold with Comcast?

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Looks like even their own employees get to wait too! Although make them wait too long, they may fall asleep on your couch! [gv data="CvVp7b5gzqU"][/gv]Сувенири

Conclusion to the stolen sidekick

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Well... the police arrested the teen who stole the sidekick... That link is to the story on the NY Times page. This whole ordeal was pretty interesting but I'm glad it's over. Maybe now Evan can go back to doing.. uh whatever he was before? http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/